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烟火
yān huǒ
Meaning
- smoke and fire
- cooked food
- (literary) beacon fire
- (literary) descendants; posterity
Definition
烟火指烟和火，通常指烟花（爆竹）或炊烟，引申为人间、世俗生活。
Fireworks or smoke and fire; also refers to worldly life or mortal world.
Usage
常用作名词，既可指具体的烟花表演，也可比喻世俗生活的气息或人间烟火气。
Used as a noun, referring to actual fireworks or metaphorically to the atmosphere of mortal life.
Examples
- 1 除夕夜，天空绽放着绚丽的烟火。 (On New Year's Eve, the sky was filled with splendid fireworks.)
- 2 这位导演的电影充满了人间烟火气。 (This director's films are full of the flavor of worldly life.)
- 3 小村庄里炊烟袅袅，烟火气息浓厚。 (In the small village, smoke curls from chimneys, thick with the atmosphere of daily life.)
- 4 他喜欢看烟火，觉得那是短暂而美丽的事物。 (He likes watching fireworks, thinking they are brief and beautiful things.)
- 5 烟火虽美，但转瞬即逝，让人感叹。 (Though fireworks are beautiful, they are fleeting, making people sigh.)
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